Platform
Satur C. Ocampo aims to be the voice of equal opportunity in the Senate. He is committed to working for the upliftment of the poor and marginalized in Philippine society: the farmers, workers, fisherfolk, urban poor, indigenous peoples, women, youth, employees and Filipino entrepreneurs.
He vows to bring back to the Senate the nationalist legacy of former Senators Claro M. Recto, Jose W. Diokno and Lorenzo M. Tanada.
Satur also hopes to pursue in the Senate his long-time advocacy for peace and human rights.
1. Uplift the poor and marginalized
Work for the upliftment of the economic conditions and dignity of the truly poor and marginalized:
- ensure the workers' right to a secure job and a living wage, including a stop to unjust labor contracting schemes;
- put a stop to unbridled demolitions of the homes and livelihoods of the poor;
- enact a universal health care policy that would provide free hospitalization to children and the elderly, reverse the devolution of health services, bring down prices of medicines, and expand coverage of PhilHealth;
- expand free legal services for poor litigants;
- guarantee tertiary education for poor students through a comprehensive scholarship and study now pay later policy;
- empower the poor and marginalized by respecting their rights and providing greater representation and participation in Congress, local government units and other government agencies.
2. Nationalism in government and the economy
Pursue a nationalist economic policy and a government that is truly accountable to the people and serves the national interest above all:
- develop the countryside through genuine agrarian reform, effective support and subsidies to farmers and the adoption of modern and sustainable farming technologies;
- protect, support and subsidize Filipino industries as well as review and correct unfair and anti-Filipino trade policies (e.g. liberalization, deregulation and privatization);
- ensure the development of a self-reliant and competitive domestic economy;
- repeal the automatic appropriations policy on debt and rechannel the debt service budget to social services and national development
- hold Mrs. Arroyo and her officials accountable for their acts of plunder, electoral fraud, human rights violations and other crimes even as policies are to be put in place ensuring greater transparency and accountability in government;
- pursue an independent foreign policy by, among others, abrogating the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement, the Mutual Defense Treaty and other one-sided agreements with other countries and foreign entities.
3. A just and lasting peace
Pursue a peace policy that seeks to resolve the roots of the armed conflict:
- address the roots of the armed conflict through the resumption of the peace talks and/or implementation of previous agreements with the NDF, MILF and MNLF;
- implement the UN Special Rapporteur's recommendations on the extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and other human rights atrocities;
- compensate the martial law human rights victims and indemnify all other human rights victims;
- free all political prisoners.
